With the adoption of a new strategy for the Western Balkans, the Commission re-engages with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia and Serbia, wanting to bring them closer to the EU at a time when Russia, Turkey and China increase their presence in the region. The European executive offers the prospect of joining before 2025.

The Trump Administration published the new National Security Strategy, a document that indicates the direction the country's foreign policy will take and the resources that are require for US national security.

Article by Fernando Reinares, Carola García-Calvo, and Álvaro Vicente published in CTC Sentinel, Volume 10, Issue 6 (June / July 2017). Violent radicalization leading to involvement in jihadi terrorism appears to be highly contingent upon two key factors of what has been termed “differential association,” namely contact with radicalizing agents and pre-existing social ties with other radicalized individuals. This empirical study, which examines all those arrested in Spain for jihadi terrorism activities over the four-year period between 2013 and 2016, quantitatively assesses the importance of these two factors and sheds light on why some individuals radicalize while many more with similar demographic and social characteristics, in the same country, do not.

Final declaration of the meeting of the G7 leaders, which took place on 26-27 May in Taormina, Italy. "Our common endeavor is to build the foundations of renewed trust, both towards our governments and among our countries".

The EUis currently the world’s largest donor. According to OECD records, its institutions and member states are responsible for more than 50 % of the world’s Official Development Assistance (ODA). With a total ODA volume of USD 18.7 billion in 2015, the UK stands as the aid world’s second largest contributor in absolute terms. The Brexit process may, therefore, mean a huge loss for the EU as a global donor. Written by Iliana Oliviéand Aitor Pérez, analysts at the Elcano Royal Institute, this study support the work of the European Parliament’s Committee on Development (DEVE) in the debate surrounding the UK’s withdrawal from the EU.

Mitigating risks and making use of opportunities: how to improve the prospects of young Europeans through the next 10 years? This report shows two positive and two negative scenarios, and some recommendations, including the expansion of Erasmus++ and some considerations on R&D. It is the outcome of the meetings arranged by the French-German Future Dialogue last 2016, in which Spain took part as a partner country.